There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.